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0 pointsJohnFen1mo ago0 comments

It's not about the quality of banner itself. It's about my concerns that this is the tip of the camel's nose.

I'm certainly not going to stop buying from GOG over this one incident. That said, this does reduce the esteem I had held them in. Now I'll have to be on alert about them, where I didn't have to before.

Even though it does make me think less of them, if they limit this kind of nonsense to ephemeral banner ads, I can put up with it. If it expands, though, I'll definitely be less likely to continue spending money with them.

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ticulatedspline1mo ago

> Now I'll have to be on alert about them,

For what? If the UI gets absurdly ugly or becomes some horrible lovecraftian mess and is unusable, sure, don't shop there. Are you going to download every graphic they use and comb over it for signs of AI?

like why? why does that matter?

JohnFenOP1mo ago

> Are you going to download every graphic they use and comb over it for signs of AI?

Certainly not. I have better uses for my time. All I'm saying is that my spidey senses will be up. It makes GOG a colder, less welcoming thing for me. It makes them more like everybody else.

And if they really do become like everybody else, then there's little reason for me to choose them.

ticulatedspline1mo ago

I think you need to assess what you're actually mad about. Like here's a graphic from 2013

https://web.archive.org/web/20150426174907im_/http://static0...

Like it's OK? pretty amateur, those shells on the right are all kinds of floaty. If I were trying to get a job as a graphic designer I def wouldn't have that banner in my portfolio. Honestly if you posted that today someone might call it out as AI.

like would it have made you stop shopping at GOG? Are you mad that it's ugly or mad they didn't pay someone to make it ugly?

reality is that's just how these kinds of things will be made from now on. It's a lot like the uproar CGI had in the movie industry, but nowadays it's like all CGI. and yeah even in big budget films like Marvel the CGI still sucks, I still prefer practical effects but it didn't stop me from going to see movies.

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0 pointsJohnFen1mo ago0 comments

It's not about the quality of banner itself. It's about my concerns that this is the tip of the camel's nose.

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ticulatedspline1mo ago

> Now I'll have to be on alert about them,

like why? why does that matter?

JohnFenOP1mo ago

> Are you going to download every graphic they use and comb over it for signs of AI?

Certainly not. I have better uses for my time. All I'm saying is that my spidey senses will be up. It makes GOG a colder, less welcoming thing for me. It makes them more like everybody else.

And if they really do become like everybody else, then there's little reason for me to choose them.

ticulatedspline1mo ago

I think you need to assess what you're actually mad about. Like here's a graphic from 2013

https://web.archive.org/web/20150426174907im_/http://static0...

like would it have made you stop shopping at GOG? Are you mad that it's ugly or mad they didn't pay someone to make it ugly?

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